Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020

Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions...

Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits

Akamai's threat research team recently published a report showing that a new phishing toolkit named Kr3pto was targeting UK banking customers. A phishing kit is an all-in-one software package that lets just about anyone create and launch phishing attacks designed to steal user data by posing as a...

Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits

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Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge

Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world. The idea of edge computing isn't new -- Akamai customers have been caching content at the edge for decades, taking advantage of lower latency and...

Announcing Akamai's 2030 Sustainability Goals

There are 4.66 billion yes, with a B internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people? Ehh, that number feels a bit low, especially given the pervasive role...

Announcing Akamai's 2030 Sustainability Goals

There are 4.66 billion yes, with a B internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people?...

Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge

Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world...

Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls

Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time. Gartner defines web application firewalls WAFs as "solutions designed to protect web applications and APIs from a variety of attacks, including automated bots, injection and...

Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls

Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time...

Building an A/B Test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV

When paired with our new EdgeKV distributed key-value database, the Akamai EdgeWorkers serverless platform gives you the ability to do powerful things at the CDN level...

Adapting Security to Work Anywhere

"Working from home 2021" was the title of my talk at The Cyber Security Summit in January, and the strikethrough is important. After a massive shift away from common workspaces in response to the global pandemic, there is no more working remotely or working from home, there is just working. The...

Adapting Security to Work Anywhere

"Working from home 2021" was the title of my talk at The Cyber Security Summit in January, and the strikethrough is important...

Taking Action This Earth Month

By: Akamai Earth Month Guest Blog by Kenda Carlson, Senior Manager, WeSpire There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap. It's when you have every intention of doing something, but it just doesn't happen. It's when you say yo...

Taking Action This Earth Month

There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap...

Gambling, Streaming Traffic Up During Men's College Basketball Tourney

Baylor wasn't the only big winner in the 2021 men's college basketball tournament. Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st. That was the day after the field of four finalists - Baylor, Houston, Gonzaga and UCL...

Micro-Segmentation Security for the Hybrid Cloud with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

Looking for software-defined yet hardware-accelerated data center infrastructure? And how NVIDIA Bluefield & Guardicore Centra can help...

Gambling, Streaming Traffic Up During Men's College Basketball Tourney

Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st...

Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security

We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe? Hacks are becoming more frequent and attacking personal, private data...

Akamai Titans 2020: Celebrating Outstanding Achievements

To Akamai's Co-Founder Danny Lewin, calling someone a "Titan" was the highest praise he would give. Danny himself was a remarkably talented and hard-working leader whose heart, passion, and spirit still inspire us. Today, Danny's accolade is used to honor those exceptional people who are known fo...

Akamai Titans 2020: Celebrating Outstanding Achievements

To Akamai's Co-Founder Danny Lewin, calling someone a "Titan" was the highest praise he would give. Danny himself was a remarkably talented and hard-working leader whose heart, passion, and spirit still inspire us...

Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security

We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe?...

Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases

The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing. There have also been a few articles in which I've discussed how...

Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases

The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing...

Tax Season: Criminals Play the Numbers Game Too

Criminals love tax season. The stress and urgency surrounding this time of year makes the victim pool highly vulnerable to various types of schemes...

2021: Volumetric DDoS Attacks Rising Fast

In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen 1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps; saw more attacks on customers across more diverse industries than ever before; and observed...

2021: Volumetric DDoS Attacks Rising Fast

In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen 1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps;...

4 Helpful Features for Centra Users - Policy Monitoring and More

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CVE-2020-15915 -- Quest for KACE blind SQLi

At Akamai, the Enterprise Security Red Team ESRT continuously strives to evaluate the security of both our external and internal services...

Akamai Focused on "What's Next" Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps. To be blunt - that's a whole lot of data traveling the world in a very short amount of time. We believe we can make a good case that it's more than the entire reported...

Authentication: Lessons Learned from Microsoft Exchange and F5 BIG-IP Hacks

The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks. For starters, on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers were attacked in droves after a set of...

Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...

Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...

Authentication: Lessons Learned From Microsoft Exchange And F5 Big-IP Hacks

The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks...

Akamai Foundation: Our Chance to Give Back

The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities. Importantly, we wanted to support the next generation of technology innovators; promoting the pursuit of excellence in STEM education amongst school children. Our work had an...

The Akamai Foundation: Our Chance to Give Back

The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities...

Threat Advisory - DCCP for (D)DoS

Recent attacks against Akamai customers have leveraged a networking protocol known as protocol 33, or Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP...

4 Techniques for Early Ransomware Detection

If you receive a ransom note, it’s already too late. Detect and stop ransomware attacks early in the kill chain with these 4 techniques...

DNSSEC: How It Works & Key Considerations

From its beginnings as a replacement for a centralized database, the Domain Name System DNS has evolved into a dynamic, highly distributed, question-answer protocol. The proverbial "phone book of the internet" has increased in complexity and scale alongside the rapid growth of the World Wide Web...

Akamai Launch Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water

Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water. The Accelerator Program enables grantees to ideate their technology-based solutions for water conservation. This year, two grantees -- SmartTerra and Jaljeevika --...

The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT

The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years. This discussion is happening in the...

Akamai Launch Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program For Early-Stage Innovations in Water

Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water...

The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT

The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years...

Finding the Cracks in the Wall - The Hazard of Single Authentication Factor

The use of authentication factors, one of the most fundamental and well understood concepts in information security, enables secure access to applications, services, and networks. It can affect an enterprise's security posture, however, as the drastic increase in data breaches and system attacks...

Phish-Proof Multi-Factor Authentication with Akamai MFA

Today, Akamai announced Akamai MFA, a phish-proof multi-factor authentication MFA service for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service? When an employee...

Finding the Cracks in the Wall - How Modern Scams Bypass MFA

In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication MFA plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is,...

Finding the Cracks in the Wall - How Modern Scams Bypass MFA

In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication MFA plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is,...

Another Golang Crypto Miner On the Loose

There are many crypto mining malware variants infecting systems on the internet. On Friday, March 4, 2021, I noticed an interesting hit in my honeypot logs. The binary it captured stood out, as it was rather large at 4MB. I immediately thought it would be a crypto miner written in the Go language...

Phish-Proof Multi-Factor Authentication with Akamai MFA

Today, Akamai announced Akamai MFA, a phish-proof multi-factor authentication MFA service for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service?...

Finding the Cracks in the Wall - The Hazard of Single Authentication Factor

The use of authentication factors, one of the most fundamental and well understood concepts in information security, enables secure access to applications, services, and networks. It can affect an enterprise's security posture, however, as the drastic increase in data breaches and system attacks...

How Akamai Can Help You Fight the Latest Exploitation Attempts Against Microsoft Exchange

Co-authored by Ryan Barnett. AppSec Protections for Microsoft Exchange CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065 On March 2, 2021, the Microsoft Security Response Center alerted its customers to several critical security updates to Microsoft Exchange Server, addressing...